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ween dreaming and waking-just code. ("It was the coolest program I ever wrote," Gates later said.) At the end of the eight weeks, Allen flew out to Albuquerque, met with Roberts, loaded the software into the Altair, and typed "print 2 + 2." The Altair spat out "4." The program worked. By the end of 1975, G
llen said. "It's going to happen! I told you this was going to happen! And we're going to miss it!" They called Ed Roberts, the man who created the Altair, and told him that they had written a version of a programming language called basic for his computer. That wasn't true. It was an early use of a n
ir owners began to do the same thing with Micro-sort's basic. Then, in February of 1976, Gates published "An Open `Z.:. Letter to Hobbyists" in the Altair newsletter, and the letter now stands as a sort of Magna •;; Carta of the software industry--the underpinning of the intellectual--property structur
tween dreaming and waking-just code. ("It was the coolest program I ever wrote," Gates later said.) At the end of the eight weeks, Allen flew out to Albuquerque, met with Roberts, loaded the software into the =Altair, and typed "print 2 + 2." The Altair spat out "4." The program worked. By the end of 1975,
llen said. "It's going to happen! I told you this was going to happen! And we're going to miss it!" They called Ed Roberts, the man who created the Altair, and told him that they had written a version of a programming language called basic for his computer. That wasn't true. It was an early use of a no
tween dreaming and waking-just code. ("It was the coolest program I ever wrote," Gates later said.) At the end of the eight weeks, Allen flew out to Albuquerque, met with Roberts, loaded the software into the =Altair, and typed "print 2 + 2." The Altair spat out "4." The program worked. By the end of 1975,
llen said. "It's going to happen! I told you this was going to happen! And we're going to miss it!" They called Ed Roberts, the man who created the Altair, and told him that they had written a version of a programming language called basic for his computer. That wasn't true. It was an early use of a no
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